information on SES background and objective health outcomes …Is the education-health gradient inflated because both education and health are associated with unobserved socio …-fixed effects to address that much of the observed education-health gradient reflects associations rather than causal relationships …

evidence from humans support claims of an adverse relationship between lead pollution and human health. Since lead exposure is … has been given to lead's impact on fertility, infant mortality, and infant health. This paper examines the existing quasi …

How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate …' preferences to personally provide care for their children during the critical years following a severe health shock drive changes … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … child health are at most modest …

supporting such a causal relationship - particularly on child health - is limited. We use two measures of child health to asses …

HRS and the PSID. Even though information on early life health events is critical, there is legitimate skepticism about …This paper provides evidence about the quality of retrospective childhood health histories given to respondents in the … the ability of older respondents to remember specific health problems that they had as a child. The evidence presented in …

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between birth order, health at birth and in childhood …, and parental health investment using administrative data from Austria. We find significant birth order effects on health … utilize medical services. We also find differences in parental health investment. First-born children are more likely to …

with frailty among older adults using a large, nationally representative cohort of community-dwelling Chinese sample. 6 …,806 participants aged ≥60 years from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study were included. We measured 13 risk factors in … status, domestic violence, neighborhood, and health). We used multinomial regression models to examine the association …

strong ties across generations. However, health status, arguably a more critical component of welfare, has largely been … ignored. We fill this void by providing the first estimates of the Intergenerational Health Association (IHA) that are …-sectional units. Adjusting for only age and gender, we estimate an IHA of 0.3 indicating that about one third of a parent's health …

-range of birth outcomes, including birth weight, gestational age and an indicator of general newborn health. We control for … of having a late birth and negatively affected newborn health - with the largest effects for earthquakes that occurred in …